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2019 Championship Finals Tickets

47 days ago

SCPA Championship Finals tickets are on sale now!

Reserved tickets are available for purchase through the CBBA website. General admission tickets will be available on the day of the event.

Tickets ordered online or by phone will incur an additional Ticketmaster service and convenience fee. To avoid such fees, you may also purchase tickets in-person at the CBBA box office during normal business hours, which can be located on their website.

You won’t want to miss the excitement as the top high school and independent percussion ensembles from across the west coast compete at Citizens Business Bank Arena in the 2019 Southern California Percussion Alliance Championship Finals.

We hope to see you there!

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SCPA Composition Scholarship

48 days ago

We're very excited to share that details for the 2019 SCPA Composition Scholarship are now available and the application window is now open.

SCPA is excited to once again award more than $3,000 in scholarships this year to deserving performers within the SCPA community. We are once again partnering with the Arcadia Music and Arts Symposium to offer three different composition scholarships and matching music production packages to our performers.

Categories will include full ensemble with no instrumentation limits, a category for concert percussion or front ensemble compositions, and a marching battery percussion ensemble composition category.

Current high school seniors and high school graduates are encouraged to consider submitting an original and never previously performed or debuted work for the chance to earn one of three scholarship opportunities to help fund whatever opportunities or goals they desire.

The recipient of the scholarship will be announced at SCPA Championship Finals.

For details about the contest, award prizes, submission requirements, and eligibility information head to bit.ly/scpascholarship and get started on your original composition today!

2019 Participant Handbook

5 months ago

The 2019 Participant Handbook is now available. Please be sure to read it in its entirety prior to beginning the registration process, a few items have changed since last year.

Registration for the 2019 season of SCPA will begin on October 1st, 2018 at 12:00 PM for World Class Ensembles, 1:00 PM for Open Class Ensembles, and 2:00 PM for A Class & PSJ Ensembles. At 3:00 PM registration will be open for all classes. Performance order will be determined by registration date.

All applications and payment for registration will take place solely online on the SCPA website. Payment will require either a credit card or debit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover).

2019 Registration

6 months ago

SCPA is pleased to announce that registration for the 2019 season will begin on Monday, October 1st, 2018.

Registration will launch in phases, with an exclusive initial window for each class:

World Class ensembles ~ 12:00 - 1:00 P.M.

Open Class ensembles ~ 1:00 - 2:00 P.M.

A Class ensembles ~ 2:00 - 3:00 P.M.

At 3:00 P.M. registration will be open for all classes. Performance order will be determined by registration date. The SCPA event calendar for 2019 is now complete and available on the SCPA website.

New Format for 2019 SCPA Championships

6 months ago

The SCPA Board of Directors has voted to change the configuration of our Championships for this year to help accommodate the WGI West Power Regional and avoid some venue unavailability issues.

For the 2019 season, SCPA Prelims and Semifinals will take place over three consecutive days, March 29th through the 31st, at Coussoulis Arena.

Friday, March 29th - PSCA and PSA Prelims

Saturday, March 30th - PSCO, PSCW, PSO, and PSW Prelims & PSJ Finals

Sunday, March 31st - PIA, PIO, and PIW Prelims & PSA Semifinals

Finals will take place as scheduled on Saturday, April 6th at Citizens Business Bank Arena.

After learning that Coussoulis Arena would not be available for three consecutive weekends this year, WGI and SCPA worked together to investigate all possible alternatives, including relocating the Power Regional to another venue or city, running concurrent events, and/or shifting some Prelims events to earlier in the calendar.

We know that many of our participating ensembles will be on spring break that week, making the weekday event an easy fit for 2019. But we also recognize that for some PSCA and PSA ensembles this will create a potential hardship in terms of securing release time from school. While none of the alternatives investigated were ideal, this modification proved to be the best possible solution for this year. Primarily, it ensures that all ensembles will be able to end their SCPA season in an arena.